Elfnote Deck #769861 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 42/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Toolbox
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link and Synchro boss monsters (Enlilgirsu, Dingirsu, Elfnote Lucina/Tinia) built off the Elfnote and Orcust engines, with Mulcharmy draw as support; Ars Magna and World Legacy recursion-driven board rebuilds through Galatea and Orcustrated Babel
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Elfnote Regina or Orcust Harp Horror, then extend into Link/Synchro bosses while Ash Blossom and Mind Mirror Force cover the first interaction (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird, Dominus Impulse) to answer the opponent's first board, then rebuild through engine monsters (Inferred)
• Recovery: Searchers (Elfnote Lucina, Fortuna, Power Patron, Ars Magna monsters) and Orcustrated Babel recycle the GY back into the hand (Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs zero side-deck cards, so there is no post-side plan (Verified)

Why it scores here

This deck is scored as a connected system, not as an average of its card scores. Its engine (Elfnote Regina triple, Orcust and Mekk-Knight starters, 15 archetype-core copies with about 0.81 odds of at least one in a 5-card opening hand, Inferred) reliably starts a plan, and up to ten hand traps give it a going-second interaction layer. Conversion into Link and Synchro bosses is plausible, but no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-based estimates only. The deck is Illegal because Saryuja Skull Dread is Forbidden in OCG and is run once, so the score is capped and the evaluation is structural-only. Archetype popularity (Elfnote usage stats) confirms the list is real but earned no points, and no post-side plan could be scored because the side deck is empty.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (Illegal) (-12). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(55.3) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(50) = 54.2, then Illegal banlist modifier −12 = 42 (Meta provisional; Illegal status means structural-only theoretical read)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ — (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Layered hand-trap and negate suite (10 hand traps, 14 negate-text cards)
• Multiple Link and Synchro boss options in the Extra Deck
• Searcher density (14) supports consistent T1 access

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Saryuja Skull Dread is Forbidden in OCG
• Low exact-name archetype purity (12.9%) across several sub-archetypes
• Zero side-deck cards, so no post-side plan
• No recorded combos, so ceiling and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Elfnote Regina / Orcust Harp Horror as the opening starter (about 25% per copy in hand5)
• Galatea access to the Orcust boss line
• Limited or Semi-Limited cards (Lucina, Tinia, Foolish Burial, Maxx C, Pot of Prosperity, S:P Little Knight, Droll & Lock Bird, Ash Blossom, Dominus Impulse)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: Saryuja Skull Dread Forbidden in OCG, copies run 1, legal 0; Main 55 and Extra 15 are within size rules; Side 0 is legal; Exact-name purity 12.9% from archetype_spread; Zero side-deck cards; Galatea x2 and 10 Link monsters in Extra Deck
• Inferred: Opening-hand starter and archetype-core odds (0.2529 and 0.8108); Hand-trap going-second odds (0.719); Interaction breadth from text roles; Going-first and going-second plan descriptions
• Provisional: Meta and format fit (D13) with no tournament or dated meta sample; Tournament reliability
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No guides attached for the archetype Zero side-deck cards: no post-side evidence